IDUG EMEA 2026: Full Schedule

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9:00am BST

D15 Db2 Upgrade Lessons the Manuals Don’t Teach You

Thursday October 1, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am BST

Db2 upgrades can look straightforward in your favourite manual, but real-world environments often tell a different story. In this session, we share practical user experiences and lessons learned from two recent Db2 upgrade projects that we undertook – moving from Db2 v11.1 to v11.5 on Windows, and from Db2 v11.5 to v12.1.3 on Linux. These upgrades involved very different setups, including single versus multiple instances, standalone databases versus HADR clusters, and the contrasting challenges between Windows and Linux platforms. We will walk through the expected and unexpected issues we encountered, highlight pitfalls not clearly documented in the manuals, and explain the workarounds and strategies that allowed us to complete the upgrades successfully.

Speakers

Iqbal Goralwalla

Principal Sales Engineer, Triton Consulting Ltd

An IBM Gold Consultant and an IBM Champion for Data Management, Iqbal Goralwalla has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of relational databases on the LUW platform. Iqbal is also a member of IBM’s Technical Advisory Board. Iqbal is a highly experienced Data Management specialist... Read More →

Damir Wilder

Db2 SME and Data Architect, Triton Consulting Ltd

I am a Senior Consultant at Triton Consulting, a UK based company that specializes in Hybrid Data Management, Digital Transformation and DB2 database and Information Management services for the z/OS and Midrange.
My area of expertise is the Midrange platform (predominantly Linux and AIX, both on-prem and Cloud).I have started working as a DB2 DBA in year 2000 on the DB2 version 5.0 and have working experience from that version up to the latest v12.1.I am a certified DB2 v10/v11.1/v11.5 LUW... Read More →

Thursday October 1, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am BST
Maria

Track D, Technical Session

Topic Back to Basics, Best Practices, User Stories
Audience Beginner
Platform LUW

10:20am BST

D16 Db2 as Containerized Deployment

Thursday October 1, 2026 10:20am - 11:20am BST

Maria

Db2 containerization makes Db2 more flexible, scalable, and cloud-native by running it in containers managed by Kubernetes. As Kubernetes is constantly evolving, so does Db2U, our Db2 Universal Container. Come and learn the great deal of innovative work coming your way, in terms of the next-gen capabilities of Db2U.

Speakers

Vijaya Katikireddy

Senior Technology Leader, IBM

Thursday October 1, 2026 10:20am - 11:20am BST
Maria

Track D, Technical Session

Topic Db2 Cloud and Warehouse, Latest and Features LUW
Audience All
Platform LUW

11:30am BST

D17 Using Db2 for more than just relational data

Thursday October 1, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm BST

Maria

Many users and applications make only use of Db2 as a relational database. But Db2 is much more than just a relational database. Db2 support the efficient processing of JSON and XML data, allows queries on spatial data, and supports text search and even semantic searches. This presentation gives an overview of these "non-relational" features of Db2, and demonstrates how these features can be used and combined to implement various use cases.

Speakers

Andreas Weininger

Principal Information Architecture Technical Specialist, IBM

Andreas Weininger is part of the Information Architecture team of IBM in Munich. He has more than 20 year of experience with scalable solutions for data intensive solutions focussing especially on the performance aspects. He is a regular speaker at database and data warehousing events... Read More →

Thursday October 1, 2026 11:30am - 12:30pm BST
Maria

Track D, Technical Session

Topic AI GenAI and Machine Learning, AppDev, Best Practices, Working with SQL
Audience All
Platform LUW

2:30pm BST

C203 Amazon RDS for Db2 Workshop

Thursday October 1, 2026 2:30pm - 6:30pm BST

Maria

This updated workshop will give you the education and information you need to use existing and new features of Amazon RDS for Db2. Some of the topics covered during this workshop will include provisioning, scaling, backup, monitoring, migration and beyond.
Each module will be introduced and presented and then participants will be provided an environment they can use and go through a series of instructor led exercises to practice what they have learned and explore. This will be a joint workship between the IBM and AWS RDS teams.

Speakers

Hafsa Ali

Executive IT Specialist for IBM® Z solutions, IBM

Javeed Mohammed

Sr. Database Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Javeed is a Sr. Database Specialist Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services. He works with the Amazon RDS team, focusing on commercial database engines like Db2 and Oracle. He enjoys working with customers to help design, deploy, and optimize relational database workloads in... Read More →

Thursday October 1, 2026 2:30pm - 6:30pm BST
Maria

Track C, Workshop

Topic Db2 Cloud and Warehouse, Modernization in Operations
Audience Intermediate
Platform LUW

IDUG EMEA 2026

9:00am BST

Iqbal Goralwalla

Damir Wilder

10:20am BST

Vijaya Katikireddy

11:30am BST

Andreas Weininger

2:30pm BST

Hafsa Ali

Javeed Mohammed

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